Joy Reid will exit MSNBC with the changes, while José Díaz-Balart and Katie Phang will also lose their dayside hours.

Joy Reid leaves MSNBC as the cable news network shakes things up. Jen Psaki, Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez get shuffled.

MSNBC confirmed plans to overhaul its daytime, primetime and weekend lineup, with Jen Psaki and 'The Weekend' anchors getting primetime shows.

Another major change likely to come centers around Jen Psaki, whose program, Inside with Jen Psaki, launched in 2023. Psaki has decades of experience in politics and was White Hou

The network is making plans to launch a show featuring The Weekend anchors Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez into the 7 p.m. ET slot, according to a source familiar with the matter. The show would run for two hours on Mondays and for one hour from Tuesday to Friday.

Network president Rebecca Kutler unveiled sweeping changes at MSNBC in prime time and weekends, with several shows canceled.

Kutler replaced Rashida Jones as the network’s chief last month. She joined the network in 2022 after being hand-selected by Jones and was part of the team that oversaw the development of “Inside with Jen Psaki” and “The Weekend” — the latter of which has seen an ratings increase of 35% since it launched in January 2024.

Jen Psaki, the former Biden White House press secretary, is officially taking over MSNBC’s primetime 9 pm slot between Tuesday and Friday, reports our sister site Variety. (TVLine has reached out to the network for comment and confirmation.

Such moves would be a signal that MSNBC will retain its progressive bent in the spin off. The network saw an audience drop following the 2024 election, but there has been an uptick since Donald Trump’s inauguration, with Rachel Maddow returing to a five-night-a-week format for the first 100 days of the new administration.

Ms. Psaki, 46, will host a show at 9 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, replacing Alex Wagner, a longtime political journalist who has anchored that hour since 2022, according to a memo to staff from Rebecca Kutler, MSNBC’s president. Ms. Wagner will remain at MSNBC as an on-air correspondent.

MSNBC on Monday unveiled its new lineup, with former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki seeing her show expand to several nights during the week

Jen Psaki will host MSNBC’s 9 p.m. ET program on Tuesdays through Thursdays once "The Rachel Maddow Show" returns to only airing on Mondays following President Trump’s first 100 days in office.